Is DDF Considered "Social Media"?

[Alexsei]

Only if you choose to be mishubud. There are many people that are happily living simple lives... Another reason to stay off social media...

Is DDF social media?

[mevinyavin]

Is DDF social media?

According to the earliest definition before Wikipedia started differentiating ("Networked Social Software"), yes.

[Dan]

According to the earliest definition before Wikipedia started differentiating ("Networked Social Software"), yes.

So the early days of usenet and internet chat rooms are social media?

Social media to me is FB and all of the web 2.0 properties made afterwards. The common denominator is they are often image/video based, they rely on dopamine sounds and feedback to get you addicted to them, and they almost always have a toxic environment.

[AsherO]

According to the earliest definition before Wikipedia started differentiating ("Networked Social Software"), yes.

I don’t think anyone considers online forums SM, even if by some obsolete definition it might have technically made the cut.

[Yehuda57]

So the early days of usenet and internet chat rooms are social media?

Social media to me is FB and all of the web 2.0 properties made afterwards. The common denominator is they are often image/video based, they rely on dopamine sounds and feedback to get you addicted to them, and they almost always have a toxic environment.

That like button on each DDF post has proved to provide a big time dopamine boost, but even without that, there is a certain feedback and attention loop. It's not in the same league as the other platforms, but DDF is most definitely social media, and much like the other platforms, there is plenty to be gained from it, but also plenty of potential for harm.

[joe1234]

Is DDF social media?

Who needs social media when there is DDF!

[Euclid]

That like button on each DDF post has proved to provide a big time dopamine boost, but even without that, there is a certain feedback and attention loop. It's not in the same league as the other platforms, but DDF is most definitely social media, and much like the other platforms, there is plenty to be gained from it, but also plenty of potential for harm.

Was going to give this a like, but...

[Yehuda57]

Was going to give this a like, but...

Are you going to remove every like you've given me 'til now?

[Dan]

I don’t think anyone considers online forums SM, even if by some obsolete definition it might have technically made the cut.

It's a joke to go back and classify online forums, which are pretty much all stuck in the 90s, as social media.

[imayid2]

DDF isn't social media?

Nope

I never thought of it as social media, so even if it really is, it has NOT broken my Geder.

It's not.
The ills of social media are where you can wind up and what you will see, despite not even trying to see it.
Besides, forums like these were around long before social media was a phrase.

[zh cohen]

That like button on each DDF post has proved to provide a big time dopamine boost

Are there notifications when someone likes a post? If not, how to people know that a post of theirs was liked?

[yuneeq]

Are there notifications when someone likes a post? If not, how to people know that a post of theirs was liked?

Are you serious

[zh cohen]

Are you serious

Yes

[Dan]

Yes

It's no FB ping, but if you click through...

[AMH]

[YitzyS]

-1

[mevinyavin]

Social media to me is FB and all of the web 2.0 properties made afterwards. The common denominator is they are often image/video based, they rely on dopamine sounds and feedback to get you addicted to them, and they almost always have a toxic environment.

Usage versus definition. I agree with you to a large extent - regarding usage, people don't see forums such as this one the same way. According to the technical definition, though, it is.
Certainly, I differentiate between them. I communicate with other people digitally in three ways: phone calls, email and DDF. Don't have accounts anywhere else (except LinkedIn but I don't use it).

[YitzyS]

That like button on each DDF post has proved to provide a big time dopamine boost, but even without that, there is a certain feedback and attention loop. It's not in the same league as the other platforms, but DDF is most definitely social media, and much like the other platforms, there is plenty to be gained from it, but also plenty of potential for harm.

What?! Who even thinks about likes?

On a serious note, I think you hit the button on the nose. I went off Twitter and turned to DDF for my source of news and entertainment. This place is a far healthier place than Twitter, and in general, I'm interacting with people who I mostly would be more than happy to interact with in the real world. But at the same time, there are aspects of social media incorporated into DDF, which one should use cautiously.

If I had to put a solid number, I'd say DDF is two-thirds "family texting chat" and one-third social media, but I'd say that these figures vary from person to person. Which is one of the beauties of DDF, that it can be used differently by different people.

[Euclid]

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[Dan]

Similar topic: Is Dan considered an 'influencer'?

Isn't the definition of that someone that can bully restaurants and hotels into giving them comps?